The Most Precious Resource is Agency

The world until recently was overflowing with onramps of opportunity, even for children, and we seem to do poorly at producing new ones. Modern complexity may have erased some avenues for agency (no boy can meaningfully learn the telegraph), but I suspect how we have oriented the world, not technology, is the main problem.

Gaining agency is gaining the capacity to do something differently from, or in addition to, the events that simply happen to you.